ESE!Fudge

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 113431

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" <hannahmarder at y...> 
wrote:

> The only thing that doesn't quite work out to my mind is how he 
> discredited Crouch Sr. using his son.  I think the other DE's 
> (doubtless led by Malfoy) actually did this for a different reason.
> 
> Crouch Jr. is a fanatical LV supporter - would he have gone along 
> with anything that Malfoy, who'd immediately run to the ministry 
> pleading the imperio curse, suggested?  

Crouch Jr. is a fanatic by the time of Goblet of Fire, but was he 
always?  If he was, he would have been arrogant at the trial, like 
the LeStranges.  I think he was sacrificed by L Malfay, and he knows 
it.  He hates his father, but he also hates the Death Eaters who set 
him up - those same ones who stood in the way of those who might have 
resurected LV.  Thus the enemy of his enemies is his friend, and he 
becomes a fanatical supporter of that which his father hates the 
most - Lord Voldemort.

Further, I think that Fudge might have known he had escaped, and 
tried to discredit him further.  Fudge was with Crouch Sr. when 
Bertha Jorkins visited the house - do we really know why she was 
there?  Perhaps Fudge set that up as well.